The Early Canterbury Runs: Containing the First, Second and Third (new) Series
Price's Station — (Runs 79 and 432)
Price's Station
(
Runs 79 and 432)
Run 79, of five thousand acres, lay along the sea coast between the lake mouth and Homebrook. It was taken up by Joseph Price in May, 1853. Price started a dairy station and by March, 1855, he was milking thirty cows and making sixty pounds of cheese a day. In March, 1862, Price took up Run 432, another five thousand acres of the lake floor in front of him.
In 1866 he sold his station to his neighbour, Richard Taylor of Birdling's Brook. Taylor abandoned what was left of the leasehold in 1870.
I cannot find out where the homestead was. Price was chief mate of a whaler called the Harriet in the 'thirties and in the 'forties was a shore whaler at Ikoraki. I shall say more about him when I come to the Peninsula runs.